My Ruthless Stepbrother (Completed)

CHAPTER 21

TWENTY-ONE: "One lucky girl." ✍️

I DIDN'T expect to see him here today! The pressure on my heart is raising again due to his sudden unexpected appearance but it was immediately felt like stabbed when I saw he wasn't alone ay all, he was with another unfamiliar girl and he was learning resting his arm on the girl's shoulders.

"Who are you to talk to her that way, huh?!" one of my guy classmates immediately spoke up with bravery to protect me.

Zack's eyes darted on the latter and then he chuckled in an insulting tone. "And who do you think you are to call me out, huh young boy? Aren't you ashamed of yourself for passing your assignment to your classmate that supposedly it's your own responsibility to do such!"

My classmate couldn't seem to know what to say next and as what Zack wanted, he looked insulted now.

"Zack..." I gently called the name of my stepbrother.

I don't wanna create a scene here, please now right now!

"You seem so full of yourself! Who the heck are you!" Luke spoke too.

"I'm a man from her home."

My classmates turned speechless, didn't seem to expect that kind of attack from this ruthless man. I am sure they are taking his words figuratively!

"Don't you believe?" Zack grinned as he tilted his head to point me. "Why don't you ask my little girl then?"

My... what's with the possession?

My classmates turned to me and without saying anything, I can read from their eyes what they're asking about and they're waiting for my response. Either a confirmation or an opposing statement.

"He's my stepbrother." I told them.

"Oh!" they exclaimed with my confirmation.

"See? Now, you already knew!" Zack started to get all the pending papers waiting for me to draw our assignment and then he handed them back to the owners, to my classmates. "Make your own assignments and do not depend on a little girl to do your simple tasks. Tsk!"

That was it then he walked out of the door.

"Zack, wait!"

He walked away without even turning or waiting to the girl he was with awhile ago.

Though he's rude, I still couldn't help myself from smiling at the thought that somehow he cared for me. He helped me save myself from the demands of my classmates. Somehow, I felt thankful to him.

That was not the only incident that I and Zack's ways crossed each other because I always get to see him at the campus with, as usual, his chicks. One of those incidents happened when I was waiting for Rhian at the waiting shed beside the school's gate 'cause usually we are fetched by our driver after classes in the afternoon.

"Waiting for Rhian?"

I looked at Zack who asked me and as ever, he was with a girl again. She was wearing a medical uniform, looked like a nurse or whatever medical-related student.

I nodded at my stepbrother. "I am."

"Good for you then!" he said in mockery before passing by me.

I just sighed while watching him walk away with his girl. I guess, I'll be used to the familiar pain I am feeling in my heart whenever I see him around and he's with different girls everytime.

That was all before. Yes, before. It was before that I couldn't seem to name the attacking feeling of pain whenever I see him with his girls, I didn't really expect that this day will come. A day of my life that finally I have figured out and I could already name the pain or why I am always feeling in pain whenever he's flirting with different girls in front of me. It was when Zack brought some pretty girl at home to introduce to our parents.

"Tita, dad, this is Anya. She's my schoolmate from College of Nursing." Zack proudly introduced the pretty girl beside him.

The girl's totally pretty. She's totally different from the girls I have witnessed to had been involved with Zack before. She's the kind of a girl that seems quite decent, a calm and a well-mannered girl, and a prim and proper that every guy would be taking care of seriously. So, Zack's must be serious with this one this time, huh?

"You're very beautiful, hija!" even my own mom adored her. "You must be Zack's girlfriend, am I right?"

Zack chuckled sweetly. "Not yet, auntie, but soon to be. I'm still in the stage of pursuing her."

"How are you, hija? How's your studies?" uncle Alanson interviewed her too.

"She's very fine and she's doing great, dad. She's always being number one on their class." Zack's obviously very proud.

I silently nodded from the side. So, she's not really just pretty, she's also intelligent and a top student of her class, according to Zack. I guess, whoever guy who lays an eye on her would be very proud to introduce someone like her to his parents. No wonder why Zack seems to sincerely likes her.

"You know what, Anya? It's so first time that Zack introduced a girl to us. You must be really special to him 'cause he waited for me to arrive here too to introduce you. You are the very first one and I must admit, you're lucky. My brother is starting to get serious." Ryle was being a friendly brother when we were already at the dining taking our dinner.

The latter was right. Zack really made sure that his family is complete when he introduced his girl to all of us. She's one hella' lucky girl! And I don't know why I feel so bad...

"Really, brother Ryle?" Anya asked in unexplainable happiness.

Zack beside her held her waist and drew her closer to him as he gently whispered something to her ear that made her smile even more and she even sweetly tapped his arm. He's being intimate with her and it's making me lose my appetite.

Seeing how much admiration he has on his eyes for her and seeing how sincerely he looks at her made me feel a heartache like no other. This is never the same amount of heartache I felt seeing him played around with different random girls before. I really thought that watching him switch with different girls to another ones the next days was already a terrifying one, I never expected something like this to come, something as bad as this to feel. Only then I realized, there couldn't be more painful than seeing him starting to get seriously in love with a perfect girl. It really hurts. It hurts so much that I just wanna run away from here and cry a lot.

"Sis Irryn, are you okay? You don't even get to touch any of your food." Rhian asked me worrying.

I, somehow, smiled because my sister worries for me. I could somewhat feel that my pain has been covered by my smile, though inside I am really hurting so bad.

"Yes, Rhi. I'm fine. I still feel full of the food I ate earlier that's why maybe right now I'm not yet into the appetite to eat, but it's nothing to worry about. I'm all fine."

I took a glance on the lovebirds in front of me. Anya was smiling at me on a sisterhood manner, though it was hard but I still managed to smile back at her. Zack, on the other side, still keeps staring at me like the usual but now he seems to be wanting to read what's on my mind. I decided to just look away and never look at him again.

The night was long and hard and painful. I was silently crying all by myself the whole night. Now, I can already really name the pain I am feeling that only Zack always makes me feel. Now, I know why I am hurting big... big time.

I like Zack, ah no, I love him! I am loving my stepbrother! I know it's crazy! My heart is really crazy!